Jurisprudence and general issues

Frontiers in Developmental and Life-Course Criminology advances the field of developmental and life-course criminology (DLC) by highlighting some recent methodological innovations, and exploring the ways in which DLC criminologists are helping to bridge the gap between science and service by their engagement with policymakers and government and non-government agencies.

Criminal Evidence is a respected and trusted introduction to the rules of criminal evidence for criminal justice students and professionals.

This volume presents the final results of the CHALLENGE research project (The Changing Landscape of European Liberty and Security) - a five-year project funded by the Sixth Framework Programme of DG Research of the European Commission.

This edited volume is a timely and insightful contribution to the growing discourses on public law in Asia.

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to criminological theory for students taking courses in criminology at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Understanding Islamic law is crucial not only for Muslims, but for non-Muslims who work with Muslims in legal contexts as well as for anyone wanting to understand the role of Islam in the world today.

Through a wide range of international and interdisciplinary case studies, this book develops the notion of legacy, and in particular, 'living legacy'- that is, it explores power relations in the context of time as a means to considering and challenging social injustice.

This book addresses two questions: firstly, how has the fight against COVID-19, especially the individual and collective responses of Latin American nation-states, influenced the relationship between power, people, and statebodies?

Canadians like to think that their country is law-abiding and honours its international commitments.

Genocide has emerged as one of the leading problems of the twentieth century.

John Milton is widely known as the poet of liberty and freedom.

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This book takes a comprehensive approach to investigate how Sharia influences and manifests in the everyday lives of young Muslims, aiming to unravel the meaning and relevance of Sharia-driven laws and practices in English-speaking Western societies.

Public Law guides students through all the essential components of the Public Law module, in a user-friendly structure that is ideal for visual learners.

Sämtliche demokratischen Verfassungen der EU-Mitgliedstaaten eint der Kerngedanke, dass alle Staatsgewalt vom "Volk" ausgeht.

This book explains the phenomenon of states'' compliance with human rights tribunals'' rulings using theories from international law, human rights, and international relations.

The book provides a systematic examination of the legal, fiscal and institutional frameworks for the commercial development of petroleum and solid mineral resources in Africa.

Time for Solutions!

Looks at legal, economic and policy issues related to third party funding in common law, civil law jurisdictions and international contexts.

The first biography of the prison reformer Alexander Paterson (1884-1947).

This collection of articles brings together a selection of previously published work on Agamben's thought in relation to law and gathered from within the legal field and theory in particular.

This book proposes an explicit recognition of criminology as a moral science: a philosophically textured appreciation of the presence and role of values in people's reasoning and motivation, set within an empirically rigorous social-scientific account.

Few episodes in the modern civil rights movement were more galvanizing or more memorialized than the brutal murders of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaneyidealists eager to protect and promote the rights of black Americans, even in the deep and very dangerous South.

A selection of outstanding papers from the 24th British Legal History Conference, celebrating scholarship in comparative legal history.

Privatising the Public University: The Case of Law is the first full-length critical study examining the impact of the dramatic reforms that have swept through universities over the last two decades.

This book takes readers behind the screen to uncover how digital technologies have affected the UK sex industry.

This book explores the ambit of the notion of persecution in international law and its relevance in the current geopolitical context, more specifically for refugee women.

The Evolving Protection of Prisoners' Rights in Europe explores the development of the framing of penal and prison policies by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), clarifying the European expectations of national authorities, and describing the various models existing in Europe, with a view to analysing their mechanisms and highlighting those that seem the most suitable.

For over two centuries, psychopathy has stood as perhaps the most formidable risk factor for antisocial behavior, crime, and violence.

This book introduces readers to the concept of parental alienation (PA), a belief system that is used with increasing frequency in judicial child custody and parenting plan decisions.

Disease and crime are increasingly conflated in the contemporary world.

Can the law keep up with AI?

Shows that the law of freedom, not slavery, determined the way that race developed over time in three slave societies.

Updated and expanded to include new equipment and also new documentation relating to bills of lading and charter-parties, this new edition of Peter Brodie's dictionary provides a reference tool for all of those who use or operate cargo ships, both tramp and liner, or who are concerned with their use.

Today, law is no longer homogenous or unquestioned.

This book serves as a vital resource for clinicians, therapists, and individuals aiming to integrate their psychedelic experiences through the transformative practice of Art Therapy.

Despite ethnography's long and distinguished history in the social sciences, its use in criminology is still relatively rare.

Outlining an original analysis of the political dimension of restorative justice, this book seeks both to enhance the critical comprehension of this phenomenon and to forge new tools for acting politically through restorative justice, inviting restorative justice scholars, practitioners and advocates to become a radical political movement.

Knowledge Discovery from Legal Databases is the first text to describe data mining techniques as they apply to law.

Crime, Inequality and Power challenges the dominant definitions of crime and the criminal through its uniquely comparative approach.

Today, law is no longer homogenous or unquestioned.

This book challenges the common European notions about African migration to Europe and offers a holistic understanding of the current situation in Africa.

Featuring in-depth interviews of attorneys, judges, and seasoned forensic experts from multiple disciplines including psychology, medicine, economics, history, and neuropsychology, The Art and Science of Expert Witness Testimony highlights and offers bridges for the areas where the needs and expectations of the courtroom collide with experts' communication habits developed over years of academic and professional training.

The role of general counsel and in-house lawyers is changing continually.

This accessible guide to the U.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia once remarked that the theory of an evolving, "e;living"e; Constitution effectively "e;rendered the Constitution useless.

As one of the 'learned' professions requiring advanced learning and high principles, law enjoys a special standing in society.